Quotes About Memory

Que adiantava eu perguntar se ele se lembrava de uma coisa que ele queria se esquecer? Quem queria se lembrar era eu, que não queria construir nada de novo

Our brains collect images from the moment we're born and file them away as either safe or dangerous. Whenever we see someone or something we dive into our memories to see who that person or scene reminds us of.

Chápání v pojmech by mÄ›lo být v jistém smÄ›ru ?erpáno z nashromáždÄ›ného pokladu pamÄ›ti. ÄŒím více ví mladý ?lovÄ›k z pamÄ›ti pÃ…â"¢ed pojmovým chápáním, tím lépe... Není jistÄ› tÃ…â"¢eba výslovnÄ› dovozovat, že toto platí jen pro vÄ›k, o nÄ›mž je tu Ã…â"¢e? (7 až 14 let), nikoli pro pozdÄ›jÅ¡í dobu.

Oh, where is the innocence I must never lose? ~Antonio

How strong these people were to leave such a lasting impression.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.

A SON My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I knew What it was, and it might serve me in a time when jests are few.

it is we who live for the dead and not the dead who live for us.

I thought that if could bring back the memory, I could bring back the feeling, and I would know for the first time what I truly wanted for myself, and then I would go and find it. That was my plan. But memories are always of things lost and gone and never returning.

Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming.

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

He tried the diversion of reciting all the bones in the body, working down the left side, down to the toes and then back up. Each toe and finger separately, just to waste time. He lost his place somewhere on the right hand.

Could a child who had never been inside a house, who had never seen a bathtub, or a flush toilet, who had long forgotten what his parents looked like before they were shot or burned, ever be normal?

He would sit singing, his cheeks turning red above his whiskers; but his voice always came out deep and steady, like the sound of long ago, if long ago could make a sound instead of being forever lost and silent.

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

But shame is not a pleasant feeling, and some Japanese politicians are always trying to change our children's history textbooks so that these genocides and tortures are not taught to the next generation. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

In Japan if you say "the war," people know you mean World War II, because that was the last one that Japan fought in. In America it's different. America is constantly fighting wars all over the place, so you have to be more specific.

At one point in my life, I learned how to think. I used to know how to feel. In war, these are lessons best forgotten.

So then you ask her when her birthday is, and she says, "Hmm, I don't really remember being born

Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life.

By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

The past (...) It feels like it exists, but where is it? And if it did exist but doesn't now, then where did it go?

Old Jiko says that nowadays we young Japanese people are heiwaboke.112 I don't know how to translate it, but basically it means that we're spaced out and careless because we don't understand about war. She says we think Japan is a peaceful nation, because we were born after the war ended and peace is all we can remember, and we like it that way, but actually our whole lives are shaped by the war and the past and we should understand that.